AT&T Locker, Cloud Storage for Windows Phone 8

AT&T has released the AT&T Locker for their Windows Phone 8 devices. It is a cloud service for U.S. based AT&T customers that provides 5GB of cloud storage for free.

You can upload photos, videos, documents and music files to the AT&T Locker over Wi-Fi or AT&T's wireless network. The app comes with an Easy Upload feature that backs up your photos and videos automatically and images can be shared via email, Facebook or Twitter directly from the AT&T Locker.

Signing up for the AT&T Locker is a little cumbersome and it's best you go to http://locker.att.net to sign up. You'll have to enter an email address, a AT&T Access ID (just use your email address), create a password and enter a security code/enter the jumble up group of letters. Once you get a confirmation email, you're in business. Just download the AT&T Locker app from your AT&T Windows Phone 8 device, sign in and you can start backing up your files.

Navigation is fairly straight forward with pages dedicated to pictures, music and files. You also have a More Page where you can access your settings, set up your social networks for sharing, view the help page, and more. If you opt out of the Easy Upload feature, just tap the cloud button at the bottom of the screen to choose the files you want to upload.

QUICK TIP: Again, AT&T Locker provides you with 5GB of cloud storage for free. You can buy additional storage space but for a limited time you can get the 50GB upgrade for FREE. Just go to the More Page in the app, choose settings and My Plan. You should see two options, the 5GB plan and the 50GB plan. The 50GB plan should be marked free. Tap the plan, back out of the settings and you'll get a pop-up window to confirm you're plan change.

The AT&T Locker is a nice feature if you need a little more storage space than what SkyDrive provides. Keep in mind it's only available for AT&T Windows Phone 8 devices and you can download the AT&T Locker here through the ATT collection of the Windows Phone Store.

Oh... and the existence of the AT&T Locker leads a little more credibility to the leaked image of the Lumia 1020 we saw yesterday. If you look at the bottom row of tiles, the AT&T Locker tile is at the bottom right of the Lumia 1020's Start Screen.

Are there limits on the size and type of file I can store in my AT&T Locker?

There are no current limits on the size or type of file you can store in AT&T Locker as long as you don’t exceed your total storage space. 5GB of storage space is provided for free, but if you need more than 5GB of storage, it’s easy to add more. Just go to Account > My Plan & Billing > Upgrade

MS should take this into consideration and allow apps like photos documents to allow you to add other online storage services to the mix. Right now they're all about supporting skydrive but it shouldn't take much to allow you to add a dropbox account in the OS somewhere like we do with email and allow WP to grab all that like it does with SkyDrive.

This seems redundant considering SkyDrive is cross-platform and offers more space with expansion options. Maybe if they had done this a long time ago or if there were no other options it would make sense.

Got it. Does anyone know if the 50GB is permanent like the 25GB on SkyDrive? That would be sweet. BTW, the SkyDrive 25GB deal was great and the 7GB is still not bad especially with the phone integration. If you have Office 365 which for $10/month or $100/yr gives you an extra 20GB on SkyDrive plus Office on five computers and then on top of that mobile devices AND the web. We are seriously complaining?

Just downloaded app, signed up, and upgraded to 50GB for free. Thanks for the tip, George! Now I have 50GB with At&t, 50 w/ Box I got when I had the touchpad, 25 w/ Skydrive and I think only 2 w/ dropbox. Plenty of options. I may just use AT&T for music alone.